After a brief tirade against the sport by the president on national television last month, pro-Chávez officials have moved in recent weeks to shut down two of the country’s best-known golf courses, in Maracay, a city of military garrisons near here, and in the coastal city of Caraballeda.
“Let’s leave this clear,” Mr. Chávez said during a live broadcast of his Sunday television program. “Golf is a bourgeois sport,” he said, repeating the word “bourgeois” as if he were swallowing castor oil. Then he went on, mocking the use of golf carts as a practice illustrating the sport’s laziness.
The government’s broad nationalizations and asset seizures have gone far beyond the oil industry to include coffee roasters, cattle ranches and tomato-processing plants.
If the golf course closings go forward, the number of courses shut down in the last three years will be about nine, said Julio L. Torres, director of the Venezuelan Golf Federation. A project on Margarita Island, designed by the American architect Robert Trent Jones Jr. and intended to be South America’s top course, was halted because of financial problems.
Considering how portly he is Chavez may not want to attack people for being "lazy".
"Bourgeois"???
ReplyDeleteIs he talking about the bulk of his ministers and associates that have come up to Miami and have bank accounts, cars, apartments, luxury items in the States????
Or his nephew that lives in Florida and lives a life of leisure, as exemplified by his myspace page were he loves posting photos of himself in American garb with handguns of high calibre.....